40 Weird Facts about Sex

From the strange origin of the vibrator to the life-or-death nature of ferret sex, we count 40 weird facts about fornication!

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Female ferrets must have sex at least once or a year – or they will die. If a jill – that’s what a female ferret’s called – is unable to find a sexual mate and stays in heat too long, her body will start secreting high levels of oestrogen, which causes aplastic anaemia – a deadly disease for ferrets.

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Humans aren’t the only species who’ve discovered alternative uses for their mouths. Apparently wolves, bears and bats are also known to participate in the practice of oral sex.

But don’t try asking a bear for oral. They’re all teeth.

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Fraternal polyandry is an arrangement where a group of brothers share a wife. This practice takes place in Nepal, where farming land is scarce. Families with more than one son would have to divide up their land if each son were to start his own family, so they instead bring in one wife to share, keeping the family together and their plot intact.

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During World War I, members of British Secret Intelligence Service MI6 discovered that semen could be used as invisible ink. The fluid didn’t react with iodine vapour, which was the main method used to detect invisible ink, so was ideal to use for sending secret messages. They also had virtually limitless supplies of the stuff.

They eventually stopped using it when it was discovered that stale semen could be detected by its smell.

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Gary Kremen is the entrepreneur who founded the personals site Match.com. He basically invented online dating as we know it today. Ironically, the poor schmuck lost his girlfriend to a man she met on – you guessed it – match.com. A thousand tiny violins are now playing for him. At least he still has his health and millions of dollars.

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An average healthy man produces approximately 300 million sperm in a teaspoon of semen. 300 million! And it only takes one little guy to fertilise an egg, meaning there’s technically enough sperm in a single man to impregnate every fertile woman on the planet.

So, guys, don’t even walk near a woman. It’s not worth the risk. Chances are she’ll get preggers.

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Five percent of the world’s population has sex once a day, while twenty percent get down three to four times a week. But there’s no shame if you only get it once every nine years after money exchanges hands. You’re, like, a really busy guy. We understand.

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One in ten European babies is conceived in an IKEA bed. It’s unknown how many are conceived in airplane lavatories.

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For men, an average sex session burns between one and two hundred calories. For women, it only burns an approximate average of sixty-nine calories. *Snigger* Sixty-nine …